Did Your Subconscious Perceive Something Your Conscious Mind Missed?

In your dream, you notice a spirit floating over the room. The entity touches everyone sitting around a coffee table in your living room. It’s a warm, friendly presence.

You’re smiling. Everybody seems to be enjoying themselves. The corporeal sit on sofas and chairs. The incorporeal float above.

When you awaken, you recognize the scene from earlier last night when you had a group of friends and family over for dinner and dessert.

That is, all except for the floating spirit. In in your waking life, you were slicing an apple pie and talking to your guests. Spirits were the furthest thing from your mind.

When you were dreaming of your guests and the little party, you were reviewing the events of the day. This is typical. Dreaming minds do this.

Yet the review came with a twist: the spirit floating above the room.

Did it happen? Was there a spirit floating above the room in reality yesterday? Did you not notice it when you were awake? If a dream is realistic and dreams reviewing the events of your day can be very realistic, it can be hard to tell reality from the dream.

Yet just because you’ve dreamed something doesn’t make it true, even if it feels like your analysis is true.

It may be true, however. You’re better off not to automatically discount the notion. The subconscious has been known to pick up certain signals and hints the conscious mind misses. For example, when you meet someone and there’s something incongruous about what they say and the way they behave. That incongruity leads you to not trust them. Being in touch with your subconscious can help you zero in on the reasons for this feeling. It can even save your life.

Another time your subconscious can help: when someone lies to you. Your subconscious mind can tip you off by signaling something about them or what they’ve said doesn’t quite add up.

Our conscious minds can’t process all of the possible information there is in the environment. Our subconscious, however, senses more details at a higher rate than our conscious mind can. It cues into inconsistencies. This is a survival mechanism. It can be thought of using a computer operating system as an analogy – too much detail would bog the central processing unit down.

Important information necessary for survival and effectiveness are relayed. The rest of it enters awareness as intuition and instinct.

The effect for some people is that it sometimes seems more mystical than it really is.

Learning when and how to trust your subconscious mind to lead you to the truth is important. If you automatically believe anything you dream, you’re going to end up with a lot of erroneous ideas.

Depending on your level of creativity, some of those ideas might even be bizarre.

The better you get at recalling your dreams, the more likely it is you’re going to have these puzzling dream experiences.

You want your beliefs to match reality.

Who wants to have bizarre ideas for the sake of having bizarre ideas?

So how about it? Was a spirit floating above your party? Were you able to read your friend’s mind?

As a check, you’re going to need to reconcile what you think might be perceptions against reality.

Mundane vs. extraordinary

When a dream features extraordinary imagery, it’s easy to tell it apart from reality. You’re likely to immediately consider how the dream is symbolically communicating a thought or feeling about something.

When the subject of the dream is a slice of life, you may forget to do that.

The first thing, however, is to consider what the extraordinary element of the dream means. It’s the same thing as any other dream element. Ask, what does it mean to me?

In the case of the dream where the spirit is floating above the room, the spirit could be symbolizing something to you. You need to determine what.

It’s the same with the ability to be able to read the mind of the person you’re talking to in your dream. It could be a symbol.

If you spend a little time thinking about it, it might come clear to you. The ectoplasm may be a symbol. So might your friend’s thoughts. Considering that it might be so is the first step at uncovering the truth.

Talk about it

Another thing you can do to uncover the reality of the dream is to talk about it with someone who was there with you in reality.

Be careful to not lead them with your questions. Just ask the question.

“When we were sitting around the table, did you notice anything different going on?”

“What do you think about Janice? What do you think she thinks about _____?”

Another perspective can help you figure out if your insight is real. It’s a frame of reference.

The key is to not lead them on by sharing your dream.

If she says, “Yes when I was at your party I couldn’t help but think of our old friend Jeff. He would have liked to have been there.”

You might have been sensing something extraordinary going on. That’s far from concrete proof, of course, but it is an interesting coincidence.

If they say something else, however, or didn’t notice anything unusual, then your vision was a symbol of some sort promulgated by your subconscious.

Putting the whole experience together

If you look for symbolism and talk with others in a non-leading fashion, you’re more likely to arrive at the truth of what happened than if you don’t. Making sure to avoid leading others with your questions is paramount.

You’re never going to be able to reach the level of concrete proof where you can say with 100 percent certainty your subconscious uncovered a hidden insight. There are no testing controls in real life. Unless you’re trying to control your dreams, you’re not even exerting conscious control on them either.